BY his own admission, Dennis (“Easy Rider”) Hopper has spent much of his life in a haze of booze and drugs. So we probably shouldn’t take what he says too seriously. But Hopper has just come up with an O.J. Simpson story I’ve never heard before. In an interview with London’s Telegraph, keen golfer Dennis correctly recalls that Simpson played a round at the Riviera Country Club on the day of the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered.

“O.J. played golf at my club on the day of the murders,” he says. “And on the eighth hole, this lawyer, Scott Blumberg, was talking and O.J. hit a bad drive. He turned around and said, ‘You motherbleeper, you talk while I hit and I’m gonna slit your bleeping throat!'”

According to Hopper, the lawyer said he was leaving, that he didn’t need to take that kind of abuse. “And Simpson said, ‘No man, I’m sorry man, but you know, I’ve been up all night on cocaine, man.”

In another part of the interview, Hopper for the first time reveals just how much the defamation action brought against him by fellow actor Rip Torn cost. “I had to cough up a big piece of change for him,” he says. “That lawsuit cost me $2.8 million. Unbelievable. For one line [a remark he made about Torn on a TV show]. Went on for three years!”